Well, it was almost perfect. Malagamus Muck and Mourneblade are pretty straight forward thrash. I might even venture far enough to say Malagamus Muck is good(ish). And after some searching, I'm pretty confident to say that Mourneblade is not one of the already listed entries by the same name. I'll have these both submitted as soon as I can get my USB recorder to work again. (PM me and I'll get a rip to anyone that wants one).

God Awful on the other hand...I don't even know what the fuck to call this. It's full of sporadic metal riffs sprinkled among non-metal wankery, odd progressions and off-beat time signatures, with prominent bass riffs and a shitty attempt at a power metal falsetto from the vocalist. I welcome a second opinion when I have the rips to share, but this one is likely a strike out.

- The End (1992, demo-tape)1. The End 2. Open Your Coat 3. Temples of Sin 4. Ome Solution 5. The Eyes (of the World)

Extremely googleable name and title. This is all I have. This has to be another band than the three Distortion's we have listed, since the inlay is written in German (not sure on the country yet, though). I'm currently talking to the owner on MS.de, hopefully he can provide some photos and maybe even a rip. He says he bought it at a flea market for 50 cents, because it looked like metal. The note at the bottom of the MS.de entry quotes the band apologising for the sound quality on the B-side, resulting from a technical error during tape duplication. They were unable to do a second run for reasons related to time, money and legalities. So this tells us a bit about distribution/quantity.

The one track I could find ("Equlize the Difference") is undoubtedly metal, quite USPM-y. They are mentioned here along with the CD, but it says "For promotion only", so I'm hesitant to add. Still, it might be that the CD was also circulated publicly.

I found an ex-member on FB and he's going to send me a CD copy for free! He also said that while the album was primarily a non-public promo, they did sell a few copies at gigs and on request, so that should be fine. Az the Sleuthinator strikes again. I'm no Zodijackyl, but I do have my moments.

Well, it was almost perfect. Malagamus Muck and Mourneblade are pretty straight forward thrash. I might even venture far enough to say Malagamus Muck is good(ish). And after some searching, I'm pretty confident to say that Mourneblade is not one of the already listed entries by the same name. I'll have these both submitted as soon as I can get my USB recorder to work again. (PM me and I'll get a rip to anyone that wants one).

God Awful on the other hand...I don't even know what the fuck to call this. It's full of sporadic metal riffs sprinkled among non-metal wankery, odd progressions and off-beat time signatures, with prominent bass riffs and a shitty attempt at a power metal falsetto from the vocalist. I welcome a second opinion when I have the rips to share, but this one is likely a strike out.

Today Rob Orton from Haunted Child and Solar Eagle contacted me out of the blue, asking whether I was still looking for the Haunted Child tape. He'll mail me a mint copy for free, let's hope it makes it and the band finally gets an entry.

Can please somebody tell me more about Elfen?This is what i know so far...¨☼ It was a another project of Athalwolf(currently Wolfnacht,Zofos)☼He relased two things: A demo from 1997 and a full-length in 1999(the side B of the full-lenght is the first demo)that´s seriously all...Internet does not know anything.What i need to know is...☼ When was this project formed an split-up?☼ Is there else to the discography? Or the band?Thanks.

Can please somebody tell me more about Elfen?This is what i know so far...¨☼ It was a another project of Athalwolf(currently Wolfnacht,Zofos)☼He relased two things: A demo from 1997 and a full-length in 1999(the side B of the full-lenght is the first demo)that´s seriously all...Internet does not know anything.What i need to know is...☼ When was this project formed an split-up?☼ Is there else to the discography? Or the band?Thanks.

Can please somebody tell me more about Elfen?This is what i know so far...¨☼ It was a another project of Athalwolf(currently Wolfnacht,Zofos)☼He relased two things: A demo from 1997 and a full-length in 1999(the side B of the full-lenght is the first demo)that´s seriously all...Internet does not know anything.What i need to know is...☼ When was this project formed an split-up?☼ Is there else to the discography? Or the band?Thanks.

Today Rob Orton from Haunted Child and Solar Eagle contacted me out of the blue, asking whether I was still looking for the Haunted Child tape. He'll mail me a mint copy for free, let's hope it makes it and the band finally gets an entry.

Hi,I tried to add this band some time ago and was rejected for lack of long enough samples. Since the band is from China and i don't speak the lenguage i was wondering if someone who knows chinese would be able to provide the full album stream.

MY SUBMISSION NOTES:In all the following link the band is described as an old schoold grind act influenced by Napalm Death, Carcass and some thrash metal. Listening to the songs everything seems right, the only problem is that i found only two of them and they are really short. There are only 6 songs, including the two i found, the rest are a noise outro and 4 covers (all from accepted grindcore bands).

MESSAGE FROM MODERATOR:Are you able to provide the full release for listening? Those two songs are both quite borderline (although not exactly short of metalness), and without knowing what the rest of the record sounds like, the band's music could go either way.

Keep in mind we don't judge a band's "metalness" based on cover songs: an artist needs to have provided original metallic material before they can be accepted.

I am Demogrogon from this project. I can tell you that Destruction of Redemption (also used another translation: Destroy Redemption). They are working on their debut release currently. Hopefully there will be more raw / war Black Metal opus from them.

Peyp wrote:

Hey, here's a project(?) I've been wondering about:

Destruction of Redemption

I recently saw that Chinese label Pest Productions was releasing an album by a new project called "Demogorgon" (which was denied into the archives because the album was 1 track metal and 1 track ambient). The trailer claimed that this project was the combined efforts of members of Zuriaake, Holyarrow, Demogorgon (who is apparently the alias of a person who used to edit a Chinese 'zine in the 90's), and Destruction of Redemption. However, I can't find any info on the last band on the label's website or just by searching the Internet.

I only know two things about the band:1. The genre ("primitive black metal", meaning it might have one of those underground demo tapes instead of a full album, or it could have played a few gigs and broken up after a couple of years)2. The logo http://website.pest666.com/store/p187/D ... now._.html (click on the second picture, the one with the description and images of the booklet. At the top you can three logos under "dilemma. revenge. snow." The left one is Destruction of Redemption's.

The only other supposedly helpful link I have is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78K74e2nDQ0. It's a preview of Demogorgon's album that talks about the three bands and the project in general in the description.

Here are a bunch of bands that I know exist(ed?), but I have little to no info about. Some of them I'm not even sure if they are metal or belong on the site (see the ? marks)! If you know anything about any of these bands, then by all means add them, or let me know (if they don't qualify) and I'll remove them from the list. Some have links in case anyone is interested in adding them but requires more info...

You may also request a band (or more info regarding the band) in the metal forum. (Sorry for the lack of polish for this page, but it's just a temp page anyway )

The tracklist is inferred from the above song cited as the first one and then going clockwise by what's on the disc. It sounds like metal, but experience has taught me to be careful with the Rare "Thrash" YT channel. He always only posts one song and a few subs based on that were later found to be grossly misleading (one example being a hardcore band, another an alternative rock band). So more samples -or at least a description of the album- are a must.

I managed to whittle down the list quite a bit. The list was last modified 28 Aug 2003. Whoever wrote the list marked possibly non-metal bands (or don't belong on MA) with (?), so they expressed some degree of confidence that bands not marked as such are indeed metal. So where I found a non-metal band on Discogs with a matching name, it's very possible that these are not the bands we're looking for.

Identified bands:

Needs research. - Endoputrescence (Beijing, China, brutal death) -- They have a song "Gorgasm" on 2001 compilation "Resurrection of the Gods".

Spelled as "Cybernetic Errosion" on their supposedly (industrial/)metal release, "Materialisation of Abomination", which can be found on Discogs. Descriptions in this review and this review don't sound especially metal.

Yeah, that Cybernetic Errosion was listed as Industrial/Heavy Metal on Discogs. Turned out that the album was some soft electronic industrial with some sort of wave music. Didn't even have guitars...

Possible misspelling/confusion:

Sol Niger Within -- An album of this name exists and is on MA, by Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects.Tortured Dogs -- "Tortured Dog" exists on MA.Yellow Machineguns -- "Yellow Machinegun" exists on MA.

Not sure actually... Bonus bands below \o/Other:

Ashtray -- There are several rock/punk bands on Discogs with this name.Brick DawnCharisma (Ex-Lemur Voice?) -- There are several Charisma on MA but none that were previously called Lemur Voice. A band called Lemur Voice does exist on MA.Darkened Dreams (US)Fleshcrawler -- The band of this name on MA did not exist yet when the list was written.Greyhaven (80's)Hamadryad -- There's a progressive rock band on Discogs with this name.Korgus (South America)Motores -- There's a "rock metal" band on Discogs of this name with a compilation appearance in 2004 (after the list was written). Formed in 1990.Myriad (US) -- The US band of this name on MA did not exist yet when the list was written.Phantom House -- There's a House band on Discogs with this name.Polysics -- There's an electronic/rock band on Discogs with this name.Screamingunderwater (metal?, US)Seraph (Beijing, China, Gothic/Doom)Tenet (?, Virusworx Records) -- There exists one Tenet on MA but not on Virusworx Records. They were signed to Virusworx at one point according to this book.

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Five dudes from western Lower Austria, formed in 1993. I have one track, titled "Factory", from a V/A sampler. The booklet for this sampler gives a short bio of the band, also referring to the aforementioned demo-tape of theirs. There's also a mention of an upcoming (planned for autumn 1997) "CD", but it's doubtful if that ever happened. The track I have seems to have been intended as one of the songs featured on it?

The demo-tape appears to be legit, here is an archived review in German from 1996 I found. Well, barely a review. Doesn't help much with getting a picture of the music, which is the main issue here, since the track I have is pretty much heavy metal, but with enough softer rock parts in it that -along with more mentioning of rock music in the bio- I want to hear more first. These sorts of bands from that time period are often a misleading mash-up of alternative hard rock and Enter Sandman metal, plus the only sample might be from an inexistent release. The review is rather useless, it's a "metal tape", there's a "hard rock ballad" and the solos "piss [the reviewer] off". The bio describes them as "solid rock, violent metal".

I think I found the ex-singer on Facebook and have contacted him. EDIT: oh, just found this page of him, so if the FB thing doesn't pan out let's try the email address. I see the demo is from 1996, according to this.

Hey everyone! I recently submitted a band by the name of Cappa/Seifert. They were a short lived duo from Pennsylvania who released a 7 inch. The A side was entitled "Steel City Metal". Due to there only being a minute and a half sample of the song on YouTube, I was told to come to this thread for more research on the band because some mods would love to have them archived. That said, I did some research of my own and was able to come across these videos. The first is a live performance of "Steel City Metal": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9bHJuaG6M

The second video is the B side to "Steel City Metal", "Try to Create". Unfortunately, this just sounds like standard rock. After hearing this (and considering it was their only release), I'm debating if it's even worth it to resubmit. I'd love to hear some feedback from the mods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHAww3cIMg

Edit: regarding Cappa/Seifert, the entire song "Steel City Metal " is available on a digital compilation of rareheavy metal and hard rock singles at the HMR forum. I am not a member there, but I know, that some mods are, for example Azmodes: http://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/vie ... php?t=3185

Bit of an odd case. I found these guys while doing some research on the Messed Up Albums Thread. The(?) Paralysing Prophecy (I can't find a definitive source of whether The is an official part of the name) is actually the second incarnation of a band with a few name changes. The band is already here under their first name, The Prophecy, and under their third name, Downstroke, but does not have a page for this incarnation.

As you can see above, both of their releases are already on the site, in somewhat incomplete form. The first album, Free Imprisoned, is currently listed on the Downstroke page, with remarks in the additional notes that it was released under the Paralysing name, though it lacks cover art and lineup. It doesn't appear to have been edited since the V2 roll-out, which probably explains why it's never been corrected. The split is listed in our Messed-Up Albums thread; it appears that the Path of Golconda side was added as a stand-alone entry back in V1, and the info on P.P.'s side of the split seems to have been lost to time. It also appears that Path of Golconda shares various members with other incarnation of the band, so that may be another path to look into for information.

I don't have any solid info on a lineup. There are a few members linked to both of the previous incarnations, so it would stand to reason that they would have been in the incarnation that bridged the two, but that's all speculation. Additionally, the entries we already have, both for the different band incarnations and the two albums, all seem to have slightly contradicting information, so it's hard to trust the dates and such.

Now, for the main hurdle: I cannot find anything in the way of samples, unfortunately. The most I can provide is this review of the full-length from metal.de; the music here is described as death metal that sounds like "unenthusiastic Crematory". Conversely, this review of the full-length from blog Underground Empire mentions that it mixes "elements of Gothic and Black metal". An entry for the band at musik-sammler.de also lists the genre as Death Metal/Gothic Metal. Granted, I'm reading these reviews from Google Translate; it may say something completely different in the native German.

Even if this one doesn't have everything needed to make a new entry, I'll be looking to clean up the existing pieces regarding the band to make them all more uniform and coherent.

The following Japanese bands were recently submitted to the queue, based around the same Youtube channel. There is always a bio provided, but I have no idea if it's trustworthy and how it's sourced. Needs some sleuthing to get a better picture (and more samples in many cases).

I've seen that site before and they have a fairly standard layout. Top bit lists each member by instrument/name then each band they were in before and after the band in question. Plus a similar line for their regular support bassist in this case.

Regarding Jéz: I found some links, which at least prove, that the Youtube bio is largely correct and that the band was active under the name Jéz Qold since 2010 for several years. Unfortunately all the info is in Japanese, so it would need someone, who can read the language, to get more possible info from it: http://98.xmbs.jp/Jozqold/?guid=onhttp://sonic-project.com/mitoi/link_zimoto_hijklm.htmSo the band was active under the name JΦZ Qold from 2010 to 2013 The band name should be also corrected to JΦZ instead of Jéz, because it is the correct transcription and I was only using the incorrect one in my original submission, because I had some problems with copying and pasting the epsilon letter.

PaganiusI wrote:

That link gives me an error message, but the "main page" confirms that this band existed.

Wading through a ton of Google results for gay porn (terrible band name), I found this GeoCities site, which is either official, or a really thorough fan page. It includes a bio and an email to purchase all three J.O.G. releases. The updates to the band history and upcoming shows tabs stops around Fall 2000, but the shop page includes the 2001 and 2002 albums as well.

There are two samples from the 2002 album for download on the 'sound' tab, bot in .ram filetype. The first is the same song linked in the original YouTube video. The second is another song, "I go to Heaven"; I tried to convert the file into a more easily-readable format like MP3, but none of the programs I have off-hand worked. If anyone has Real Media Player or another .ram compatible program, go for it.

I did also find two other links that seem to corroborate the YouTube bio's claim that they reformed and toured. Both of these are tour history pages for other bands where Jack Off Guys is mentioned:

I struck out with both Gideon Knights and Hot Coke, the only info on either really coming from either the linked YouTube videos, or pages about the VA Comps they are featured on in said YouTube videos.

I'm sure someone has already done so, but if not, perhaps we could reach out to the person behind that YouTube channel and see if he could shed some light on his sources. He seems to be fairly proficient in the scene.

Azmodes wrote:

Sorry for the delay MCH. Nice job finding that site, looks like the release issue is satisfied, but I have no clue right now how to get that sample to play. Besides, while two songs are definitely better than one, it's still rather slim.

EDIT: hmmmm, seems like the files are no longer working? I just get super tiny files when I try to save it locally.

PaganiusI wrote:

If you open the .ram files with a text editor you get the direct link to the download you just well...downloaded, because .ram is "Link file used by RealPlayer, a program used for streaming Internet audio and video; saved in plain text and contains a hyperlink to a corresponding .RA file, which can be streamed; includes a "pnm" or "rtsp" URL, which are the protocols used to access and play RealAudio data."https://fileinfo.com/extension/ram

That's why they're so tiny.

EDIT: Files are still working, currently listening to them and searching a way to save it

Wading through a ton of Google results for gay porn (terrible band name), I found this GeoCities site, which is either official, or a really thorough fan page. It includes a bio and an email to purchase all three J.O.G. releases. The updates to the band history and upcoming shows tabs stops around Fall 2000, but the shop page includes the 2001 and 2002 albums as well.

There are two samples from the 2002 album for download on the 'sound' tab, bot in .ram filetype. The first is the same song linked in the original YouTube video. The second is another song, "I go to Heaven"; I tried to convert the file into a more easily-readable format like MP3, but none of the programs I have off-hand worked. If anyone has Real Media Player or another .ram compatible program, go for it.

I did also find two other links that seem to corroborate the YouTube bio's claim that they reformed and toured. Both of these are tour history pages for other bands where Jack Off Guys is mentioned:

I struck out with both Gideon Knights and Hot Coke, the only info on either really coming from either the linked YouTube videos, or pages about the VA Comps they are featured on in said YouTube videos.

I'm sure someone has already done so, but if not, perhaps we could reach out to the person behind that YouTube channel and see if he could shed some light on his sources. He seems to be fairly proficient in the scene.

I just had my submission rejected a second time (first time due to insufficient proof of digital release) because the band is allegedly not a metal band. If this isn't Melodic Death Metal, then what is it?